Does anyone know fencing quotes?

[nemiss]

Hello, I am looking for a really cool quote to put on our team sweater. I have been searching the net, but I couldn't find very much. Does anyone know some?? Grtz, nemiss.

[duel mom]

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
-Muhammad Ali

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
-Archie Griffin

"I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing."
-Richard Milhous Nixon

--From Quoteland.com Search yields not much.

[GGK]

Touch them in the fleche.

Fencing. It's escrime.
(Someone else uses that one, can't remember who.)


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[mhoneth]

A hit, a very palpable hit.(Osric in Shakespeare: Hamlet)

My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure. (Tennyson: Sir Galahad)

Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough. (Mercutio in Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet)

... High in front advanced, / The brandished sword of God before them blazed, / Fierce as a comet. (Milton: Paradise Lost XII)

One sword keeps another in its sheath. (Herbert: Jacula Prudentum)

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. (Matthew 26:52)

The point! - envenom'd too! (Shakespeare: Hamlet)

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. that of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe us extinguished for ever. (Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France - of Marie Antoinette)

They would most willingly have taken the buttons of the foils. (Drummond of Hawthornden)

Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away. (Proverb dating from the 17th century)

Alas, sir, I cannot fence! (Rugby in Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Let the praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hands. (Psalms, 149: 5-6)

Face feroque. [With fire and sword] (Latin expression)

You will learn horsemanship, swordsmanship in all its branches, and dancing. (Dumas: The Three Musketeers)

I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion / I would have made them skip. (Shakespeare: King Lear)

And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in gilgal. (I Samuel, 16:7)

Men are as the time is: to be tender-minded /Does not become a sword. (Shakespeare: King Lear)

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the main points of my analysis. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise King born of all England. (Malory: Le Morte d'Arthur)

I will not cease from Mental Fight, / Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, / Till we have built Jerusalem, / In England's green and pleasant land. (Blake: Milton)

Without question, when [Hampden] first drew the sword, he threw away the scabbard. (Clarendon: History of the Rebellion)

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword. (Hebrews, 4:12)

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. (Shakespeare: Othello)

The pen is mightier than the sword. (Bulwer-Lytton: Richelieu)

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 1:18)

The minstrel boy to the war is gone, /In the ranks of death you'll find him; / His father's sword he has girded on, / And his wild harp slung behind him. (Moore: The Minstrel Boy)

In ferro veritas (The sword is truth)

They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. (Song of Solomon, 3:8)

The arbitrement of swords (Shakespeare: Cymbeline)

I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O had I but followed the arts! (Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Shakespeare: Twelfth Night)

[remise]

Quote from my son:

"FENCERS GET RIGHT TO THE POINT."

[wflaschka]

Fencers do it in the fleche

/got nothing

[Ramrod]

"My Epee is longer than your Sabre!"

[Fechter1]

Saw this somewhere, can't remember where:

Coed naked fencing - we know the pleasures of the fleche...

[Talen]

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, "I am strong!" ---Joel 3:10 (NIV)

(interesting - I added this to my sig line and it shows up on old posts!)

[Inquartata]

"Mordieu! You call the cleverest thrust in all Gascony a crime?!"

Spoken on the gallows, by a Gascon ( obviously ) condemned to death for killing his opponent in a duel, when the priest asked if he'd like to repent his crimes...

[deadly lefty]

its merily a flesh wound- monty python


pen and sword are in accord- by the sword

they say the pen is mightier then the sword lets see someone fence against a man with a pen- i just thought of that

[arcon]

lyrics:

come on .....come on now .....touch me babe. Cant you see that
IIIIIIIIII am not afraid.

[Almightynoitall]

I see your schwartz is as big as mine, but can you handle it as well? ~from Spaceballs!

Be afraid, when they outlaw guns, I'll still have my swords!

The only ORIGINAL silly french outfit...

... And YOU thought swords just held cherries and pineapple in drinks...

Who says slashers never make it?

Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You Killed my father! Prepare to die! ~from The Princess Bride

Care for a good poking?

Have you played with your sword today?

[lfortier]

touche'! ---Hey, its simple, and gets across to everyone that your team gets alot of touches and is a force to be reckoned with!

[Wizardly]

"Why did you stop fencing?"
"Hit me sir. On target."
"Oh, touch left."
-true story: director literally turned around mid bout to talk to someone.

"Who are YOUUUUUUUU to tell me that?"
- yet another director (think thick slavic accent)

"There can be only one"
- famous last words of a cocky noob (also "highlander")

"the pointy end goes in the other guy"
- "the mask of zorro"

"we're men, we're men in tiiiiiii-iiiights..."
- "robin hood: men in tights"

"oooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuooooooooooggggghh hh"
- male fencer, not wearing a cup.

[Cerian]

The art of fencing is to give and not to receive

-Moliere

[jspierre]

There's the famous one from Aldo Nadi, something to the effect "....thank G_d we are not boxers..."

[fencingguy]

Cowards and faint hearted run aways look for orations when the foe is near. I shall let my sword be the Orator for me! -Cicero

[mhoneth]

WARNING: Fencing makes me horny.

[wflaschka]

"Fencers only recognise fencers, potential fencers and hopeless individuals." -- Aldo Nadi.

Then again, "Competition calls for psychological qualities which the average girl simply cannot possess." -- Aldo Nadi.